Easy Living Page #3

Synopsis: J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it off the roof, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Mitchell Leisen
Production: Paramount Pictures
 
IMDB:
7.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
PASSED
Year:
1937
88 min
368 Views


otherwise we'd only have

48 weeks in a year!

You mean leap year? No,

no, I don't mean leap year!

If I meant leap year

I would have said leap year!

At the end of six months

you would have paid $52...

But you're still paying...

Twelve percent.

At the end of 49 weeks you will

have paid everything but $2,

so you're paying 600/.

You know, you don't have to get

mad just because you're so stupid.

Don't talk to me like...

You don't seem to understand...

What do you mean I...

...that 12 times one

can't possibly be 600...

All right! All...

Twelve times one is 12!

All... All... All...

I don't want to be rude,

but I mean I should think a small child

would be able to understand that...

All right! Let's forget

all about it!

Right.

Right.

This isn't mink, is it?

Huh?

Of course it isn't.

That's Levinsky.

You mean kolinsky?

Why, you shouldn't be

giving away a real kolinsky...

I'll tell you. We'll look

at it another way now.

A farmer borrows 100 cows,

you understand?

He borrows 100 cows.

Now, how much

did the farmer pay?

Twelve cows!

Well, don't you like

this one, either?

I do not! It looks like a salt shaker!

Well, we think

it's very recherch.

Well, that's

the trouble with it!

Oh, what's this?

Uh-uh-uh.

We... We prefer to

handle these ourselves.

Uh-uh-uh, yourself!

Brute!

Try this.

Oh, fur!

Why, that's genuine sable.

Let's try it

with the coat.

Now you're talking!

Oh!

Oh, I haven't any

money with me, but...

Well, of course...

Here's my card.

And send me the bill.

Yes.

Come on.

Oh, will you put my old hat in a bag, please?

A bag?

Yeah.

Why, my dear, we'll send it to you

in a Rolls Royce! And the address?

Mary Smith,

725 West 112th Street.

Come on. I've got to get to work! A bag?

Goodbye!

Goodbye. Goodbye!

Goodbye!

Goodbye!

Did you get that coat?

My dear, you don't realize.

That was the Bull of Broad Street. A what?

The Bull!

The Bull!

Oh!

The Bull!

Goodbye.

Goodbye.

And keep the moths

out of Levinsky!

I will. I don't know

how to thank you, Mr... Mr...

You didn't tell me

your name!

Oh, excuse me!

I'm so sorry!

Good morning,

Miss Swerf.

Oh, I know I'm late,

but I'll stay and make it up.

Pretty, isn't it?

Good morning.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Hello.

Ladies and gentlemen,

please!

No, no, no, no! Ball!

J.B. Ball himself, in person!

The Bull of Broad Street!

With a girl! In the sablest

sable coat they ever sabled!

Well, wherever there's smoke

there must be somebody smoking!

Mary Smith! Now, don't

breathe a word of it to a soul,

not even a soupon!

Toodlee-oo.

You expect us to believe, Miss Smith,

that a complete stranger,

having dropped

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Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges (; born Edmund Preston Biden; August 29, 1898 – August 6, 1959) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director. In 1941, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film The Great McGinty, his first of three nominations in the category. Sturges took the screwball comedy format of the 1930s to another level, writing dialogue that, heard today, is often surprisingly naturalistic, mature, and ahead of its time, despite the farcical situations. It is not uncommon for a Sturges character to deliver an exquisitely turned phrase and take an elaborate pratfall within the same scene. A tender love scene between Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck in The Lady Eve was enlivened by a horse, which repeatedly poked its nose into Fonda's head. Prior to Sturges, other figures in Hollywood (such as Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, and Frank Capra) had directed films from their own scripts, however Sturges is often regarded as the first Hollywood figure to establish success as a screenwriter and then move into directing his own scripts, at a time when those roles were separate. Sturges famously sold the story for The Great McGinty to Paramount Pictures for $1, in return for being allowed to direct the film; the sum was quietly raised to $10 by the studio for legal reasons. more…

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